Parent Pit Stop

Starts:

6:00 pm on Friday, August 29, 2014

Ends:

9:00 pm on Friday, August 29, 2014

Contact Name:

Christy Olson Loring

After move-in, parents are invited to join Dean of Students' staff members at the BU pub. This casual gathering will provide parents an opportunity to ask last minute questions and to meet fellow BU parents.

When Alison Maclean speaks to students at the College of Communication tonight, the most important lesson she’s likely to impart to aspiring filmmakers is the necessity of persistence. Her latest feature, The Rehearsal, comes more than 15 years after her last, but she made the picture she wanted to make. Maclean, the guest speaker at the […]

Presidents Day marks the first three-day weekend of the spring term and since it starts school vacation week, several Boston museums and other venues are hosting free events. It offers a great chance to get out and explore the city, and there’s a lot to see and do—from athletic events on campus to outdoor activities, […]

Anyone who’s been to Flatbread Company at Sacco’s Bowl Haven in Somerville’s Davis Square will tell you that combining delicious flatbread pizzas and New England’s famous candlepin bowling under one roof is a surefire prescription for a good time. But if you live on the BU side of the Charles, getting to Somerville isn’t always convenient—a […]

Just six years before Martin Luther King, Jr. (GRS’55, Hon.’59) led the famous 1963 March on Washington—one of the seminal moments in the nation’s struggle for civil rights—he and other black leaders came together at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington for an event called the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom. The May 17, 1957, gathering was […]

As a doctoral candidate in English literature at Birbeck, University of London, Caroline Levine wanted to write her dissertation on knowledge in 19th-century fiction in a style that would make it accessible to a broad audience. Her advisor thought that was a terrible idea. “She wanted me to use the rigorous, specialized language, so I would […]